The first big pot of the day went to Ivan "Soul" Demidov. Clashing with chipleader Dennis Phillips they went to the flop after raise-reraise-rereraise action making it 8.225 million to come along preflop! With a
board, Phillips bets 4.5 million in the 17 million pot, after which Demidov moves all-in! Chips get counted, it was 9.4 million more to go with Phillips only having 8.6 million left, so he'd have to call all-in, or fold leaving Demidov a huge chiplead. Eventually he decides to fold and Soul is up to 35.8 million, while Phillips, who started as chipleader, now has the 2nd shortest stack. Soul's chiplead didn't last long tho. When Ylon Schwartz first wins a big pot off Scott Montgomery, he is second in chips and when Demidov raises preflop, Ylon makes the call from the big blind. On a
board, Ylon bets out, Demidov calls. The
on the turn makes Schwartz bet out again, Demidov calls again after some thought and when the
on the river comes, Schwartz checks for the first time. Demidov bets out 3.7 million and Schwartz calls with
, beating the Russian's
and making Schwartz the new chipleader.
While not many expected Kelly Kim to reach to even reach the final 9 back in July, his chances of getting any higher than the 9th place were pretty slim as well. But everything can happen at the final table, and when he was still alive after the first couple of hours, that was already a good thing for him. However, he only had a few blinds left when Demidov puts him allin from the smallblind. But he just happens to pick up kings to double up off Demidov's KTo. His survival skills paid off, and even at less than a million chips, he manages to survive one more player, when
Craig Marquis pushes all-in preflop. Holding
against Montgomery's
, it's the classic coinflip again. The
flop made Marquis a set, meaning Montgomery needed running cards to beat him, but the
and the
on the turn and river gave Montgomery the straight and knocked out Marquis in brutal fashion (with Kelly Kim earning at least $387,547 more). When he openshoves the very next hand (for a mere 150k more), he gets called by Schwartz, Demidov and Suharto. The
flop makes Demidov bet out. Schwartz folds and Suharto calls. They both check it down and Demidov shows
losing to Suharto's
.
Kelly Kim mucks his hand and is out in 8th place.
Chino managed to double up through Demidov with AKo vs 99, hitting a K on the turn and Suharto doubles through Schwartz with AKo vs Q8o (Q on flop, K-A on turn and river). When Phillips is allin with
against the
from Ylon Schwartz he was almost having a Philip Hilm-moment, starting as chipleader but getting knocked out early on. However, sometimes the difference between getting knocked out and winning a few million dollar is just in one card, and as Phillips hit one of his three outs on the flop, the he doubled up to 21 million again. Schwartz was down to about the same. Another favorite was in trouble not much later, when
David "Chino" Rheem got his money in with
against Peter Eastgate's
he was way ahead, but again, another suckout ended ones tournament, when the
came on the flop.
Darus Suharto's timing to move all-in proved to be off, when he puts his chips in after Montgomery's raise. He gets called with
and is way behind with
. No help on the board this time and Suharto takes down $2,418,562 in 6th place. At least he can pay off his mortgage and continue as accountant
.
Scott Montgomery's faith seemed to be confident, after he put Ivan Demidov all-in for over 20 million chips, but Demidov didn't wait a second to call with his pocket kings. Montgomery's
didn't catch anything but a flushdraw and he was crippled to 7 million, leaving Demidov 50.1 to be the chipleader once again. And when that same Montgomery puts his money in with
against Eastgate's pocket sixes, he's behind. An
on the flop made him cheer, but the
on the river knocked him out in 5th place.
Demidov and Eastgate are now the two bigstacks with about 50 million, Phillips and Schwartz are down a bit with around 20 million. The biggest two failed bluffs of the day happens to be the final two bustoutst. When
Ylon Schwartz calls after Eastgate raises preflop, the
board makes both check. With the
on the turn, Schwartz checks to Eastgate, who bets out 1.75 million. Schwartz calls and the river brings a
and he check-raises Eastgates 4.6 million bet all-in, for 11.2 million more. Eastgate calls with
leaving Schwartz looking rather stupid with
and he's out in 4th place.
Dennis Phillips later leaves in about the same fashion, another raise from Eastgate preflop, Phillips calls. The flop brings
and Eastgate bets, Phillips decides to go all-in and Eastgate snapcalls once again. This time he has
and Phillips is caught with his pants down and only holds
. No running cards for him and we have our final 2 players!
End day chipcounts:
Peter Eastgate - 79,500,000
Ivan Demidov - 57,725,000
Payouts and results so far:
1. Demidov/Eastgate $9,152,416
2. Demidov/Eastgate $5,809,595
3. Dennis Phillips $4,517,773
4. Ylon Schwartz $3,774,974
5. Scott Montgomery $3,096,768
6. Darus Suharto $2,418,562
7. David "Chino" Rheem $1,772,650
8. Kelly Kim $1,288,217
9. Craig Marquis $900,670
